Book description
The streets of London resonate with secret stories, from East End lore
to Cold War espionage, from tales of riots, rakes, anarchy and grisly
murders, to Rolling Stones gigs, gangland drinking dens, Orwell's
Fitzrovia and Lenin's haunts. Ed Glinert has walked the length and
breadth of the city to unravel its mysteries, travelling through time
from the Romans' London wall to the new Olympic site at Stratford. This
is London as you have never seen it before. Ed Glinert was born in
Dalston. In addition to
The London Compendium
, he is the author of Literary London, East End Chronicles, West End
Chronicles
and The Manchester Compendium,
among other titles.
He founded Manchester's City Life
magazine, has written for Private Eye
and and leads walking tours in both London and Manchester.
